Thousands bid farewell to Tokyo zoo pandas before return to China

Let's hope they get new pandas.

I understand the pain and heartache.

The besotted J population have bestowed, from a distance, warm and cuddly black and white hairy treasures. the lovable creatures soft charming adorable panda couple names, Ri Ri and Shin Shin.

Inadvertently, trip stumble over that "guard rail", separating that gorgeous huge ball of fur, whilst enjoying an ice cream cornet, an admiring hanky holding j public, you will never enjoy or see a carefully curated sashimi platter again.

Always be wary, suspicious of a Chinese government "bearing" gifts.

The problem with Panda Diplomacy is that if countries don't ignore and turn a blind eye to China's military aggression and other shenanigans, then China threatens to take away their panda bears. Keep your panda bears!

Pandas are great and all -I've seen them too - but

"They are the best duo that brings comfort and smiles to me."

"Ri Ri and Shin Shin were "like the sun to me" and "always gave me emotional support",

This is bunny-boiler level obsession.

Pandas, left alone in there natural habitat, would be blessed with the number of be governing China.

Please ignore my scepticism above.

Who cares whether one could pet one or not, up close.

Pandas bring joy,

"When I look at their smiles, whatever worries me just goes away... I can't be more grateful for them,"

Ri Ri and Shin Shin were "like the sun to me" and "always gave me emotional support"

Enough said.

It's sad that these animals became the CCP's diplomatic tools. But then what isn't political coming from China?

These were just Chinese propoganda tools. As zoo's payed china for a bear in the hope that they would make some profit. While we thought china was being nice, panda politics, the public got suckered in, and the CCP were building up different claws. And lets be honest, it had nothing to do with conservation at all. Just a panda peep show. Cute, pretty, nice, but conservation is just public PR.

Welcome back home Pandas..

get a life people

And I thought the old lady near my house pushing her pet bunnies in a stroller had a few screw loose! These people are next level and Ueno zoo has a horrible/ small enclosure for these pandas - poor animals!

@Some dude’s post comparing these female panda fans to the Glen Close bunny boiler psycho gets 14 upvotes but dango bong and I get downvoted?

Watching the melodrama unfold on tv news I was surprised at how emotionally distraught many of the "Panda Fans" were.

Nigh on everyone likes pandas, but the outpouring of woe was akin to a disaster.

Should be a celebration that the 2 aged and infirmed bears are being returned to a nature park where one expects their final days may well be as comforting as possible away from the stares and glares of cuddly mania.

Maybe they could rent some painted Chow-Chows instead.

If you pay money to the Chinese Communist Party to buy custody of a panda, but then have to give the panda back halfway through, why not just stop paying? Paying money to the Chinese Communist Party is like giving money to a robber.